STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Women conspicuous by their absence in political cartoon collection
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The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2017
Edited by Tim Benson
(Random House Books, £12.99)
IN AN introduction lamenting the absence of women editorial cartoonists in the national press, Tim Benson offers the Morning Star a backhanded compliment as the “only daily newspaper that draws on the work of female political cartoonists.”
But he can’t resist the gratuitous barb that they work “unpaid” which indeed they, along with the paper’s many volunteers, do.
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